Christos Kapralos was born in Panaitolio of Agrinio in 1909. Since he was a child he expressed a great interest in art. The Papastratos brothers, the great benefactors of Agrinio, were the people that supported Kapralos with a scholarship to study in the School of Fine Arts in Athens and Paris.  When the WW2 started, Christos Kapralos left Paris to serve his country. After the defeat of the Greek front, he returned to his village. There, he built a hut from mud and canes, with the help of his brother Spyros. He used this hut as his "art laboratory". His first models were his mother and his best friend, Christoforos, who posed for him for hours. Then, all his relatives and the people of his village posed for him.

Christos Kapralos created significant works of art during the period 1940 - 1945, including a series of small anaglyphs on cast, representing the adventures of our region during the war, until the day of liberation.  His work was exhibited in 1946 in Athens and his unique talent was immediately recognized. Konstantinos Kotzias, the Mayor of Athens, then assigned him a building plot from his personal property in the district of Koukaki, where Kapralos' art laboratory is still located. The artists decided to enlarge his famous anaglyphs after the exhibition. He worked hard from 1951 to 1956 to complete his epic 40 meter composition "The Monument of the Battle of Pindos", which is exhibited in the "Museum of Kapralos" in the island of Aigina, where the artist went to work during the summer.

In 1962, Christos Kapralos is selected to represent Greece in the international art exhibition Biennale in Venice. This exhibition was an important standpoint in his career, as his works were highly appraised. Christos Kapralos then received many proposals to work in Europe and in America, and the international press wrote many articles on his work.  With the money he earned in Biennale, Kapralos realized his dream to buy his own art studio in Aigina in 1963. Since then, he worked 6 months in Athens and 6 months in Aigina.  His work became so popular that at the end Kapralos had six art studios. Christos Kapralos died in 1993. The "Museum of Christos Kapralos" was founded in Aigina, and right outside it, by the sea, stands the copper figure of his mother, the same figure that stands outside the Museum of Agrinio.